# 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down

Source: https://x.com/3blue1brown/status/1876291319955398799?s=19&t=YhWrSLzk5eUdyWcfye7RYw

## Summary

3Blue1Brown reports that its 2017 YouTube video explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down and the channel received a copyright strike, despite the content being entirely the creator's own. The takedown request appears to have been issued by the company chainpatrol on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says it makes use of "advanced LLM scanning" for brand protection. The creator suggests a bot may have convinced YouTube's systems that a re-upload of the video, of which there has been an incessant onslaught, was the original. The creator says it is worrying that such tools could issue fake takedown requests, given that three strikes can delete an entire channel.

## Article

I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content).

The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies"

I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request.

It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.

## Comments

**macbudkowski.eth**: Even some people at Hacker News are appalled:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42612494

**mishaderidder.eth**: Where’s dTube when you need it?

**naomiii.eth**: Apparently its back now: https://x.com/3blue1brown/status/1876411617606340825